Make it easier to switch to markdown about github-writer HOT 6 OPEN

This is by design, for now. Ideally, the markdown button should be removed altogether (the death of the "source" button!).

If we make it too easy for one to go to markdown, people will get lazy and will not care about reporting the issues that motivated them to move back to markdown in the first place. Then issues don't get fixed and after one has to constantly go to markdown to have things working, the extension would fail its purpose.

At this early stage, I would prefer to hear about the problems, instead of providing an easy (or slightly easier) way to work them around.

Whenever I hit some limitations of the editor

Oh, those are the things I want to hear about!

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I'm one of the users who would like to primarily use markdown, and occasionally move to WYSIWYG for tables ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Currently switching to markdown is troublesome, as the button is "hidden" inside the kebab dropdown. Since some of the users use this option I'd like to propose a solution that would make it a lot easier to toggle between modes.

Possible solutions:

1. Move the icon from the kebab dropdown to the most-right place inside the button toolbar, so it's visible by default.

CKEditor view:

Markdown view:

2. Remove the button with a markdown icon from the kebab toolbar and force it to be always on the most-left side.

CKEditor view:

Markdown view:

Markdown icon will be removed in both cases from the toolbar to avoid duplication, and replaced, when in the markdown mode, with a custom "CKEditor" icon.

Icons used here are only used as an example, as we might use different ones.

3. Add an additional tab for switching to Markdown.

CKEditor view with hidden "Preview" tab:

CKEditor view without hidden "Preview" tab

Markdown enabled:

The Markdown icon will be removed in both cases from the toolbar to avoid duplication.

Feel free to share your opinions and any other possible ideas in this thread.

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I laughed so hard at this ticket :D Brings me memories of ckeditor/ckeditor5#592.

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Potentially linked: #215.

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For me personally, 3) "CKEditor view with hidden "Preview" tab" seems like the way to go. It's consistent with how other tabs are presented.

Option "2" looks visually really nice (cool idea), but I had usability issue with it - my initial feeling was that the icon on the left suggests/reflects the current mode. While it isn't.

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